Re: [PATCH v6 08/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Add IA32_DS_AREA MSR emulation to support guest DS

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon May 17 2021 - 09:27:02 EST


On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:42:06AM +0800, Like Xu wrote:
> @@ -3897,6 +3898,8 @@ static struct perf_guest_switch_msr *intel_guest_get_msrs(int *nr, void *data)
> {
> struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_hw_events);
> struct perf_guest_switch_msr *arr = cpuc->guest_switch_msrs;
> + struct debug_store *ds = __this_cpu_read(cpu_hw_events.ds);
> + struct kvm_pmu *pmu = (struct kvm_pmu *)data;

You can do without the cast, this is C, 'void *' silently casts to any
other pointer type.

> u64 intel_ctrl = hybrid(cpuc->pmu, intel_ctrl);
> u64 pebs_mask = (x86_pmu.flags & PMU_FL_PEBS_ALL) ?
> cpuc->pebs_enabled : (cpuc->pebs_enabled & PEBS_COUNTER_MASK);

> @@ -3931,6 +3934,12 @@ static struct perf_guest_switch_msr *intel_guest_get_msrs(int *nr, void *data)
> if (!x86_pmu.pebs_vmx)
> return arr;
>
> + arr[(*nr)++] = (struct perf_guest_switch_msr){
> + .msr = MSR_IA32_DS_AREA,
> + .host = (unsigned long)ds,

Using:
(unsigned long)cpuc->ds;

was too complicated? :-)

> + .guest = pmu->ds_area,
> + };
> +
> arr[*nr] = (struct perf_guest_switch_msr){
> .msr = MSR_IA32_PEBS_ENABLE,
> .host = cpuc->pebs_enabled & ~cpuc->intel_ctrl_guest_mask,